B-to-B Events
Navistar Makes Push for Natural Gas at MATS
Truck and engine manufacturer Navistar on March 21 held a panel on a hot button issue for the industry—natural gas. The VIP event took place one day prior to the opening of the Mid-America Trucking Show, an annual forum for the heavy-duty trucking industry and the largest trucking show in North America, held March 22...
Glowing Behemoth Towers over IDF Attendees
Build it and they will come. That’s the idea behind SiMan, an 18-foot tall, 700-pound glowing behemoth built and decorated by attendees over two days at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) held this past September in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. It was a simple way to engage and inform attendees about a more complicated concept—intelligent...
Gettin’ Your Networking Group On
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are all quickly becoming vital contributors to b-to-b event programs. As attendee communication tools, channels for fast and cost-effective content propagation and forums for feedback and real-time troubleshooting, mainstream social media is changing the way conferences and user events get planned and managed. But for many event marketers, the strategic value...
Intel Surprises Attendees with a B-to-C Experience
At this year’s Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona (Feb. 21-March 1), Intel executed a new engagement strategy in its booth that transformed its former b-to-b program into an immersive, high-tech b-to-c experience. The 40-foot by 100-foot booth featured three key experience zones created to connect with original equipment manufacturers like Motorola, Nokia and...